👩‍🔬 Percision Oncology 👨‍🔬
A Promising and Novel Approach towards
Cancer Treatment
Around the turn of the twentieth century, researchers realized
that radiation could be used to treat cancer. In the 1950s, drugs
that could block crucial functions of cancer cells began to
emerge.
Now, well into the twenty-first century, radiotherapy
and chemotherapy still stand alongside surgery as the most
common forms of cancer treatment. But, as some people with cancer
are already finding out, there is another way.
The premise of precision oncology is to develop treatments that
target the molecular characteristics of an individual’s tumour. Some
treatments go as far as to eschew the question of where in the body
the tumour originated, and instead focus on particular genetic mutations. The emergence of this kind of
targeted treatment is an exciting moment in the battle against cancer. But for the
precision-oncology dream to be fully realized, the therapies must help
more people with cancer than the 5–10% who currently benefit.
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